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Henry Parker (MP For Bedford)
Henry Parker may refer to: * Henry Parker (MP for Bedford) (by 1509–1551), MP for Bedford * Sir Henry Parker (MP for Hertfordshire) (died 1552), MP for Hertfordshire * Sir Henry Parker, 2nd Baronet (1638–1713), English politician * Henry Meredith Parker (1796–1868), British writer * Henry Parker (bishop) (1852–1888), Anglican bishop in Africa * Henry Parker (writer) (1604–1652), political writer during the English Civil War * Henry Parker (Georgia official) (c. 1690–c. 1777), colonial governor of the U.S. state of Georgia * Sir Henry Parker (Australian politician) (1808–1881), Premier of New South Wales * Henry Parker (cricketer) (1819–1901), English clergyman and cricketer * Henry Taylor Parker (1867–1934), American theater and music critic * Henry Wise Parker (1875–1940), British admiral * Henry Parker (author), British engineer in 19th century colonial Sri Lanka, author of ''Ancient Ceylon'' and ''Village folk-tales of Ceylon'' * Henry H. Parker (1858†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Parker (MP For Bedford)
Henry Parker may refer to: * Henry Parker (MP for Bedford) (by 1509–1551), MP for Bedford * Sir Henry Parker (MP for Hertfordshire) (died 1552), MP for Hertfordshire * Sir Henry Parker, 2nd Baronet (1638–1713), English politician * Henry Meredith Parker (1796–1868), British writer * Henry Parker (bishop) (1852–1888), Anglican bishop in Africa * Henry Parker (writer) (1604–1652), political writer during the English Civil War * Henry Parker (Georgia official) (c. 1690–c. 1777), colonial governor of the U.S. state of Georgia * Sir Henry Parker (Australian politician) (1808–1881), Premier of New South Wales * Henry Parker (cricketer) (1819–1901), English clergyman and cricketer * Henry Taylor Parker (1867–1934), American theater and music critic * Henry Wise Parker (1875–1940), British admiral * Henry Parker (author), British engineer in 19th century colonial Sri Lanka, author of ''Ancient Ceylon'' and ''Village folk-tales of Ceylon'' * Henry H. Parker (1858†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Parker (author)
Henry Parker (1849–unknown) was a British engineer in colonial Ceylon during the Victorian era. He was attached to the Irrigation Department from 1873 to 1904. During his work as an engineer he developed an admiration for the skills displayed by the ancient Sinhalese at the time of the construction of their reservoirs. FAO Parker is renowned for having studied and compiled the folklore of Sri Lanka, becoming an authority on the subject. He was the author of two books: *''Ancient Cey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Harry Parker, 6th Baronet
Sir Harry Parker, 6th Baronet (1735–1812), was from a distinguished naval family and inherited his title on the death of his father, Vice-Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, in 1782. Harry Parker bought Melford Hall in Suffolk in 1786, and the Baronetcy subsequently became known as "of Melford Hall". He was Chief Clerk to the Secretaries of the Board of Admiralty and, between 1782 and 1795, he was the secretary of the Board of Longitude. He retired from public service in 1795, and received a pension of £400. He married Bridget Cresswell in 1775 and had five children, William (who succeeded him as 7th Baronet), Louisa, Edmund, Hyde (who became 8th Baronet), and Sophia. He is buried in a vault in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford in Suffolk, and there is a large memorial to him and his wife within the church. There is a portrait of him at Melford Hall, now a National Trust The National Trust, formally the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Bea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Villiers Parker, Viscount Boringdon
Henry Villiers Parker, Viscount Boringdon (28 May 1806 Р1 November 1817) was a British nobleman. Life He was the son and heir apparent of John Parker, who had him painted by Benjamin Burnell in 1813. His mother was Lady Augusta Fane, second daughter of John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland, whom Parker had married in 1804 but from whom he was divorced by Act of Parliament in 1809 - she re-married to Sir Arthur Paget later in 1809. In 1815, his father was created Earl of Morley and Henry assumed the courtesy title of Viscount Boringdon. However, Henry died at Saint-Mand̩ near Paris in 1817 aged 11, having "incautiously taken into his mouth an ear of rye" which having lodged in the "lowermost part of the lungs", caused his slow and painful death over several days, which he "supported with a firmness, cheerfulness and patience which circumstances the most trying could never disturb", as the monument by Delaistre erected to his memory by his father in 1819 in St Mary's Church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Parker (Royal Navy Officer)
Rear-Admiral Henry Hardyman Parker CB (born 20 December 1963) is a senior Royal Navy officer who served as Director (Carrier Strike). Naval career Parker was commissioned into the engineering branch of the Royal Navy and served on the aircraft carrier HMS ''Invincible''. He became Director (Maritime capability and Transformation) and Controller of the Navy in 2012 and continued as Director (Carrier Strike) at the Ministry of Defence in 2013. Parker was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath Companion may refer to: Relationships Currently * Any of several interpersonal relationships such as friend or acquaintance * A domestic partner, akin to a spouse * Sober companion, an addiction treatment coach * Companion (caregiving), a caregive ... (CB) in the 2016 Birthday Honours. References 1963 births Living people Royal Navy rear admirals Companions of the Order of the Bath People from Cheltenham Military personnel from Gloucestershire {{UK-navy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Parker, 14th Baron Morley
Baron Morley is an abeyant title in the Peerage of England. On 29 December 1299 William de Morley, lord of the manor of Morley Saint Botolph in Norfolk, was summoned to parliament and was thereby deemed to have become Baron Morley. At the death of the sixth baron in 1443, the barony was inherited by his daughter Alianore de Morley, the wife of Sir William Lovel, who was summoned to parliament as Baron Morley ''jure uxoris'' and died in 1476, shortly before her. It was then inherited by their son Henry Lovel, following whose death in 1489 it came to his sister Alice Lovel, who was married to Mr Parker. The title was thenceforward held by her descendants the Parker family until 1697, when on the death of the fifteenth baron without children, the barony fell into abeyance. Unrelated Earldom of Morley (1815) It can be no coincidence that in 1815 John Parker, 2nd Baron Boringdon (1772–1840), of Saltram House in Devon, of the apparently unrelated Parker family which originated from h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Parker, 11th Baron Morley
Henry Parker, 11th Baron Morley (January 1533 – 22 October 1577) was an English peer, Lord of Morley, Hingham, Hockering, &c., in Norfolk, the son of Sir Henry Parker and Grace Newport. His father was the son of Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley and Alice St. John. His father was knighted at the coronation of Anne Boleyn and died within his father's lifetime, therefore the title passed directly to him upon the death of his grandfather in 1556. He was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Queen Mary I on 6 October 1553. In 1560, he became Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire. In 1561, he entertained Queen Elizabeth I at his principal residence, Allington Morley, Great Hallingbury, Essex. In 1569, he refused to sign the Act of Uniformity 1558 and the following year left the country without the queen's permission. He was based first in Brussels and later in Madrid, where Philip II of Spain made him a gift of 600 ducats in 1574. He died in Madrid on 22 October 1577. He marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley
Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley (1476/1480/14813 December 1553/1556), (notes to Parliamentary records show this as 25 November 1556) was an English peer and translator, Lord of Morley, Hingham, Hockering, &c., in Norfolk. He was the son of Alice Parker, 9th Baroness Morley, née Lovel (c. 1467–1518) and her husband Sir William Parker, who was Privy councillor and standard bearer to King Richard III. He married Alice St John, granddaughter of Sir John St John (1426–1498) and his wife Alice Bradshaigh, and thus a descendant of Sir Oliver St John and his wife Margaret Beauchamp of Bletsoe, by whom he had one son, Sir Henry Parker, who was knighted at the coronation of Anne Boleyn and died in his father's lifetime. The son of Sir Henry Parker, Henry, succeeded his grandfather as Baron Morley. Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley, had three daughters: Margaret, who married John Shelton, Jane, who married George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, the brother of Henry VIII's second wife, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Perlee Parker
Henry Perlee Parker (1785–1873) was an artist who specialised in portrait and genre paintings. He made his mark in Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1820s through patronage by wealthy landowners and through paintings of large-scale events of civic pride. Over a period of forty years his work was exhibited at the Royal Academy and the British Institution in London. Coastal scenes of fisherfolk and smugglers were a popular specialism. Through the distribution and sale of mezzotint prints of subjects such as ''William and Grace Darling Going to the Rescue of the SS Forfarshire'', Parker became one of the north-east's best-known nineteenth-century artists. In Newcastle upon Tyne he was central to the setting-up of a Northern Academy for the Arts. Later, in Sheffield, he taught drawing at the Wesleyan Proprietary Grammar School, and in his later years he lived in Hammersmith, London. He had a large family and was married three times. Early life Henry Perlee Parker (1795–1873), portrait a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Hodges Parker
Henry Hodges Parker (March 2, 1834 – September 7, 1927) was the fourth Kahu (pastor) of Kawaiahaʻo Church in Honolulu. He served in that position 54 years, the longest of any Kahu in its history. Fluent in the Hawaiian language, he was a friend and pastor to Native Hawaiians, which included several decades of the Hawaiian monarchy. Background Born March 2, 1834, in Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, he was the oldest of four children, and the only son, of missionaries Benjamin Wyman Parker (1803–1877) and Mary Elizabeth Barker Parker (1805–1907). They were part of the Sixth Company of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions that had been sent to Nuku Hiva in 1833. The island was under civil unrest at the time, and the mission was aborted within months. The missionaries arrived back in Honolulu on May 12, 1834. The Parkers were assigned to Kaneohe, Hawaii, Kaneohe, where Henry and his sisters Mary, Harriet and Caroline grew up. He studied at the Royal School (Haw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry H
Henry may refer to: People *Henry (given name) *Henry (surname) * Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry Royalty * Portuguese royalty ** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal ** Henry, Count of Portugal, Henry of Burgundy, Count of Portugal (father of Portugal's first king) ** Prince Henry the Navigator, Infante of Portugal ** Infante Henrique, Duke of Coimbra (born 1949), the sixth in line to Portuguese throne * King of Germany **Henry the Fowler (876–936), first king of Germany * King of Scots (in name, at least) ** Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545/6–1567), consort of Mary, queen of Scots ** Henry Benedict Stuart, the 'Cardinal Duke of York', brother of Bonnie Prince Charlie, who was hailed by Jacobites as Henry IX * Four kings of Castile: **Henry I of Castile **Henry II of Castile **Henry III of Castile **Henry IV of Castile * Five kings of France, spelt ''Henri'' in Modern French since the Renaissance to italianize the name and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Wise Parker
Admiral Henry Wise Parker, CB, CMG (15 June 1875 – 1 August 1940) was a Royal Navy officer. At the Battle of Jutland in 1916, he was flag captain to Vice-Admiral Sir Doveton Sturdee of the 4th Battle Squadron The 4th Battle Squadron was a squadron of the British Royal Navy consisting of battleships. The 4th Battle Squadron was initially part of the Royal Navy's Home Fleet (1912–14) and then the Grand Fleet after the outbreak of the First World War. ... in HMS ''Benbow''.{{Cite news , date=2 August 1940 , title=Admiral Parker of British Navy , url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/08/02/archives/admiral-parker-of-british-navy-former-commander-of-first-cruiser.html , work= The New York Times , pages=15 His wife was the politician Dame Dehra Parker. References 1875 births 1940 deaths Royal Navy admirals Royal Navy officers of World War I Companions of the Order of the Bath Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George People educated at Oakham School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
